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Future of Historical Cartography The Raja Todar Mal Memorial Plenary Lecture Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA) October 15, 2011 THE FUTURE OF HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY David G. Dickason, Ph.D. The W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change College of Arts & Sciences Western Michigan University INTRODUCTION. If “history is too important to be left to the historians,” as is often said, then we may say also that “maps are too important to be left to cartographers”. I would like to preface my comments by saying that my INCA colleagues know vastly more about both cartography and India than I could ever know. I hope today only to stimulate renewed interest in historical cartography and to place it in the context of contemporary trends. My comments are in three parts. First, thoughts about time and historical maps. Second, reflections on how cartography (and historical cartography) is changing. Third and last, the challenges to, and opportunities for, historical cartography in the digital age.1 As a non-cartographer, I wish to view historical cartography primarily through the lens of map content and map comparison -- in the context of contemporary geospatial concepts and methods. 1. TIME. Historical cartography deals with maps and mapmaking through time. There are two kinds of time we must recognize that humans perceive. They differ qualitatively. Kairos Time: Encounters with Eternity. Kairos is a Western religious-philosophical concept with Indian equivalents. Kairos refers to deep spiritual or sacred time (“God’s time”) where people sense eternal truths.2 Historical maps based in kairos time show the place of 1 This talk relates to South Asia, but is more general than, and views cartography 20 years later than J.E. Schwartzberg (Assoc. Ed.) and J.B. Harley and D. Woodward (Eds.) (1992). The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 579. It does not attempt to revisit the same materials as treated in so masterly a way by J. Schwartzberg. This talk also makes no effort to incorporate the many excellent previous Raja Todar Mal lectures relating to historical cartography available on the INCA website. Nor does it revisit the excellent work of S. Gole (1989). Indian Maps and Plans: From Earliest Times to the Advent of European Surveys. New Delhi: Manohar. pp. 207. 2 Kairos also refers in secular terms to the “propitious” or appropriate time, a transcending time of insight, creativity, revelation or epiphany, in which humans perceive phenomena differently than usual. The role of the church in Western culture over many centuries warrants considering kairos in its sacred sense, particularly for mappa mundi. D.G. Dickason: The Future of Historical Cartography 2 humans in the cosmos. Such maps termed mappa mundi in the West focus on an axis mundi, a sacred mountain or pole on which the world “revolves”.3 Figure 1. Places like Jerusalem, Makkah, Amritsar, Mt. Meru, the Altar of Heaven, and Kashi (among many others) are such foci. Sacred scriptures celebrate actions, stories, and places in kairos time. Pilgrimage to sacred sites follows cosmic mental maps and pilgrims submerge in kairos time on their devotional journeys. A Muslim Figure 1. Hereford Mappa Mundi. The most ornate T-O map, from about 1300 CE. going to Mecca on the Hajj (Figure 2), a Sikh going to Amritsar (Figure 3), or a Roman Catholic en route to the Vatican are all immersed in kairos time. Their experience of the world is qualita- tively different compared with other times. Hindu tradition has a vast number of tirthas (or ‘fords’) where events in kairos time intersect(ed) the mundane, human world. Major Hindu temples constitute cosmic maps expressed in kairos time.4 Figure 4. Kairos time maps are Figure 2. Grand Mosque at Makka. Source: Google Earth. yantras or mandalas, therefore. Figure 5. They 3 One of the best known is the Hereford Cathedral’s (U.K.) Mappa Mundi, a most ornate T-O map created before 1300 CE. It incorporates four kinds of information about the world: 1) geographical; 2) Biblical and theological; 3) Alexandrian Classical; and 4) fictional. It shows geographical change, but only theologically correct changes. For instance, the center of the map has moved from the Garden of Eden (the eastern extremity of the map) to Jerusalem where the “Christian Era” came into being. See G. Alington (1996). The Hereford Mappa Mundi: A Medieval View of the World. Leominster: Gracewing; P.D.A. Harvey, ed. (2006). The Hereford World Map: Medieval World Maps and Their Context. London: The British Library. 4 Excellent examples are the Vaishnavite Sri Ranganathaswami Kovil at Srirangam on the Kaveri River near Tiruchirrapalli, and the Shaivite Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram, also in Tamilnadu. D.G. Dickason: The Future of Historical Cartography 3 may include whole cities like Kashi. Figure 6. And Hinduism is further unique in its flexibility of transposing space – and Kashi is mirrored at many places across India. Cartographers of kairos landscapes are monks, priests, and gurus (or their interpreters).5 Kairos time is eternal, and therefore it is unchanging in human terms. Study of kairos time maps is based primarily on devotional insight Figure 3. The Golden Temple at Amritsar. Source: Google Earth. instead of cartographic interpretation. Relatively little further geographic insight can be expected from kairos time maps because like T-O maps, they have been with us for many centuries. They represent the eternal existing equally in the “past”, “present”, and “future”. They are,therefore, “timeless,” fixed and unchanging.6 Chronos Time: Encounters with the Mundane. Chronos time is secular time more or less as employed in modern life (albeit with Figure 4. Sri Ranganathaswamy Kovil, Srirangam. On the Kaveri River near Tiruchirrapalli, Tamilnadu. Source: Google Earth. differing calendars). Chronos, clock time, measures short time intervals like railway time and standard time. Modern cartography is based on principles of chronos time, from calculating longitudes to calibrating GPS. Time and space 5 Kairos time, so far as is known, has heretofore not been identified by historical cartographers or interpreters of documents such as mappa mundi. Axis mundi have long been identified, as has sacred and profane space. M. Eliade (1959). The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion. W.R. Trask (trans.) New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. See also P. Wheatley (1971). Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. For Kashi, see D.L. Eck (1982). Banaras: City of Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 427. See also H.F. Hirt, “The Dravidian Temple Complex: A South Indian Cultural Dominant,” Bombay Geographical Magazine (1961), p.95-103. 6 It is not so much that kairos time is “changeless” as that change shown on kairos maps constitutes only change legitimised by the divine and/or by myth and legend (both being external to contemporary human agency). D.G. Dickason: The Future of Historical Cartography 4 are linked in chronos time – so when Wm. Lamb- ton established the distance from Chennai to Mangalur/Mangalore by the Great Trigonometric Survey he found the distance between these places to be about 44 miles less than previously thought. Figure 7. This distance meant that these two places were more than 9 days closer for the caravans and armies of Lambton’s day. Chronos time is also the time dimension used by Raja Figure 5. Yantras of Hindu tradition, and mandalas and thangkas of Tibetan Todar Mal in promoting the Mughal state. Buddhist tradition. We expect many changes in chronos time. Places flourish and wither in chronos time; landscapes and settlement systems develop and are resculpted; new systems are added on top of old ones – irrigation, transportation, or legal and land revenue systems (such as developed by Raja Todar Mal). People migrate from one place to another and some places may be eclipsed by others -- for instance, Murshidabad by Kolkata/ Calcutta, or Arcot by Chennai/Madras. Figure 6. Modern Varanasi, with traditional Kashi located between the Geographic change is basic to chronos time, and Varuna and Asi Rivers. Banaras Hindu University is visible in the geometric campus plan at bottom outside Kashi’s perimeter. Hindu conceptualization allows transposition of space, so that there are many provides the fundamental reason for cartographers Kashis mirroring this one. Source: Google Earth. to continue making maps. Early chronos maps in the West were portolan charts beginning in the fourteenth century (Figure 8), and nautical charts made later like Mannevillette’s 1775 nautical chart of south India, Sri Lanka, and the Indian Ocean all showed compass directions for sea voyages rather than D.G. Dickason: The Future of Historical Cartography 5 information about landward hinterlands. Figure 9. The Nature of Time & Temporal Maps. Cartographers don’t have to think as philosophers and physicists do about whether time is linear, circular, or goes in cycles – whether kairos time is “real” Figure 7. Southern tip of India from Kanyakumari northward to Dindigul showing triangulations of Col. Wm. Lambton of the Great Trigonometric Survey -- with secondary triangulations of others. Into these and chronos time is “illusory”, local surveys were “snapped”. Arcot was 9 miles closer to “Madras” (Chennai) than previously thought. Triangulation error at Bengaluru (Bangalore) was thought to be only 7 inches! or whether both are “real”.7 (Hindu philosophic schools of thought can accommodate almost any conceptualization of time!) But as humans we all live in the “present” (although we like say that some of us live more in the “past”, or more in the “future”, than others). We perceive the need for maps of Figure 8. A portolan-like chart of the 17th century.
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